Designer Marlies Romberg, a recent graduate of the Utrecht School of Arts, has created the Dear Diary 1.0. The design basically consists of a computer embedded in a traditional wooden desk, and a wooden keyboard laser cut into and out of the surface of the desk with a screen and a mouse to match.

What you see above are the EXOvault, iPhone cases handcrafted from solid metal. These cases are to “provide you with a distinctive beautiful handcrafted object that sets itself apart from the average modern plastic world.”

LaCie upgrades its LaCinema Rugged to LaCinema Rugged HD offering support for 1080p Full HD content in H.264, MKV, WMV9, and VC-1 …

Samsung announced the Spinpoint N3U 250GB 1.8-inch hard drive that comes with native USB controller on its printed circuit board. The hard drive …

AT&T launches two new Sony Ericsson mobile phones in the US market, including the C905a Cyber-shot and the W518a Walkman phone that is the enhanced version of the W508 Walkman with additional A-GPS support.

Chinese divison of Australian company, Optima, introduces the OP5-E Mobile Internet Device (MID) that runs Maemo Linux that is normally found …

Bang & Olufsen (B&O), the Danish company that creates well engineered yet expensive AV products, presents the BeoTime alarm clock. The BeoTime is an alarm clock that has been transformed with remarkable and unobtrusive design and surprisingly practical features, like built-in motion sensor and subtle automatic backlighting.

In addition to the SimpleTOUGH and SimpleDRIVE Mini hard drives, Hitachi brings the SimpleNET  USB drive network adapter. The device allows you to share and access your existing USB hard drive over network. Just plug the USB hard drive into the SimpleNet and connect the device to an Ethernet network, then you can access the hard drive on the network.

Hitachi announced two lines of USB 2.0 external hard drives, the SimpleTOUGH and the SimpleDRIVE. The SimpleTOUGH is a rugged external hard drive that is water- and shock-resistant. It can sustain a three meter drop (9.8 feet) and able to withstand the pressure of a one-ton class commercial truck. Based on Hitachi’s TravelStar hard drives, the SimpleTOUGH is available in 250GB ($99.99), 320GB ($119.99) and 500GB ($149.99) capacities.

IronKey presents the S200 drive for government and enterprise customers, which is claimed to be the “world’s most Physically …